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Webster 1913 Edition
Piling
1.
The act of heaping up.
2.
(Iron Manuf.)
The process of building up, heating, and working, fagots, or piles, to form bars, etc.
Pil′ing
,Noun.
[See
Pile
a stake.] A series of piles; piles considered collectively;
as, the
. piling
of a bridgePug piling
, sheet piles connected together at the edges by dovetailed tongues and grooves.
– Sheet piling
, a series of piles made of planks or half logs driven edge to edge, – used to form the walls of cofferdams, etc.